The Supernatural / the Ghosties!

I've actively seen one ghost and I've "felt" more than a few over the years so I'm pretty convinced at this point. I'm still not sure exactly what to make of it though and I doubt I ever will as i tend to look at thing scientificly and at this moment science hasn't really even gotten a vague idea what the ghost thing is all about. they're kicking around the idea that ghosts are detectable by raised electromagnetic field levels so I think that's how they're trying to detect them but that can be hosed up by electronics being on and any number of random crap. It could explain how soem peopel are more sensitive to it than others though as for example I can tell when a area haunted quickly by a certain feeling which is the exact same one I get when electronics are on around me only more intense and with an emotion attached to it usually.

I don't think direct physical interaction can take place though as my finacee's dad's house is incredibly haunted and ina really hostile way and the only physical manifestation has been all of the crap flying off of her grandmothers dresser on it's own. Which trust me you can just feel that place wanting to kill you and if it could more than knock shit over it would.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Nahual

What if it's a poltergeist? o_0

Those tend to be more active and follow a specific person. That's been the only incident of that type so I'm doubtfull. Though they are usualy linked to people who are troubled and unhappy and her grandmother is bedridden and slowly becoming demented but if it were a poltergeist it would just be added on top of what was already there as it was haunted before she moved in.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Actually I agree with you about the sleep paralysis thing. People have invented all sorts of crap to explain it over the years usually evil spirits of some sort and it's bs. My fiancee has them all of the time they're nothing but a particularly disturbing misfire of the brain.


That really is an odd choice of explanation of the whole spiritual thing though for a godboy. How exactly does that jive with your beliefs anyway?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Nahual

I wonder why I even brought up the poltergeist.
I guess I just forgot that you've seen a ghost.
Oops.
Dang it!.

I didn't see it in that place though it was in a sears warehouse that I worked at. I asked one of my coworkers and he said he'd seen it as well so I figured it wasn't just my mind being wierd. Rather benign sort of ghost though you'd see him just walking around checking boxes and ignoring you completely out of the corner of your eye.

Originally Posted by Fjordor

Basically, it jives with my beliefs in that I think that this universe was created with a specific and unique design. Many of the feelings that we get are part of this design. Additionally, I do not think that all things are explainable through naturalistic means, such is the case with the question about design itself, as well as miracles. I am still fleshing out this change in perceptions however, but I myself do not see an elimination of my faith; rather, I see a further crystallization of it that I have not experienced before, and it has so far helped me make more sense of a lot of stuff.

Hmmm I suppose that makes a bit of sense but it seems liek the sort of tool that could easily turn in your hand against your faith. But then maybe I'm just projecting how my mind works onto you.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I got the impression he was just so serious about his job that he still did it after he was dead. Looked liek a very serious 50's hard working type of fella so I suspect that he was still piddling around keeping an eye on things. And if you abide by the theory that ghosts are something along the lines of psychic residue in place it could just be a a recording of him working as it were.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Syndrome

Also, I've noticed something. Mostly with all this "experiences" of different people, these cases are almost always applyable:

1) He/she was a kid when it happened.
2) He/she was half asleep when it happened.

These two things explain much, I think.

I've noticed that as well. That and the fact that a lot of people who are really hardcore about this sort of thing are also fairly mentallly unstable. That being said the experiences I've had were all while I was wide awake and I'm not particularly mentally unstable.

Plus really how do you explains all of the shit flying off the dresser of a sleeping crippled woman in the middle of the night while all of the animals are outside and all the other people are upstairs? I've yet to come up with a particularly logical way of explaining that one and we checked to make sure the cats didn't do it first thing.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?